Anthropic launches Haiku 5.5 at a much lower price
Anthropic on Wednesday launched Claude Haiku 5.5, the first new version of its smallest and most affordable model in nearly The post Anthropic launches Haiku 5.5 at a much lower price appeared first on The New Stack .
Anthropic has introduced Claude Haiku 5.5, the smallest and most affordable model in nearly a year, marking the third Haiku 5.5 release this month. This model is described as "fastest and most efficient" and priced significantly lower than its predecessor. At a $0.10/$0.50 rate for requests under 100,000 tokens, Haiku 5.5 offers up to 75% savings compared to Haiku 4.5.
Key updates include effort controls for developers and enhanced performance in tasks such as computer use, knowledge work, and agentic workloads. Benchmark tests show Haiku 5.5 outperforming previous models across various benchmarks, including OSWorld 2.1, GDPval-AA v2.1, and Terminal-Bench 4.0. Prices are competitive compared to other small models like Z.ai's GLM-5.3-Flash and Alibaba's Qwen3.7 Flash.
Anthropic is also offering beta support for computer use and browser use, along with a cache-read price reduction for Sonnet 5.5. Additional API credits are being added to Max and Team subscriptions, providing more value for users.
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Also reported by 3 other outlets
- Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, the first Haiku model with effort controls, for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summaries and classification (Anthropic) anthropic.com
- Anthropic prices Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens for requests up to 100K tokens, and $0.50 and $2.50 above, vs. $1 and $5 for Haiku 4.5 (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack) thenewstack.io
- Anthropic unveils low-cost Claude Haiku 5.5 model aimed at 'cost-sensitive tasks' seekingalpha.com
